New edition of Maxwell Perspective reports on Minnowbrook conference

The
new, Winter 2019 issue of Maxwell's magazine for alumni, students, faculty,
staff, and other friends — Maxwell Perspective — leads with a report on the
50th anniversary version of the Minnowbrook Conference on public
administration, which was held in August. The magazine describes the School’s
“Minnowbrook legacy,” which dates back to faculty member Dwight Waldo and the
first such conference, in 1968; and it summarizes many of the conversations
held this summer, which are prompting further discussion in subsequent sessions
and through digital channels.

The
issue also includes a feature article about the new Lender Center for Social
Justice at Syracuse University, which was founded by Maxwell alumnus Marvin
Lender and his wife Helaine. The interdisciplinary center is expected, over
time, to house projects involving many Maxwell faculty and students.

Among
other articles in the new magazine are:

a report on last fall’s
Policy Camp for undergraduates from underrepresented racial and cultural
groups;

a profile of economist
Mary Lovely, who is in Washington, D.C., as the first-ever Merget Fellow;

a story about students
in Citizenship and Civic Engagement who were able to conduct research last
summer, funded by the Snow Foundation;

acknowledgement of a
special anniversary for the MAIR/MSPR program (for students pursuing
careers in public diplomacy); and

coverage of efforts to
publish, in book-form, classnotes left behind by late PA faculty member
Bill Duncombe.